Monday
Heavenly StemYin Earth
This day’s heavenly stem is 己 – Yin Earth. The ten stems represent yin and yang pairs of the five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
The day is 己未 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchGoat
This day’s earthly branch is 未 – Goat. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 己未 gives the day’s animal. It comes from the calendar cycle, not the visitor’s birth details.
Traditional day qualityClose Day
闭 – Close Day. The traditional name means: closing.
The twelve day officers follow the relationship between the day branch and the solar-month branch. Here the day is Goat and the month is Monkey; their relationship produces this officer.
This is a general traditional quality. Read the Suggested and Avoid lists for individual activities; the name does not promise success.
Traditional recommendations
Translations of the traditional entries. Enable Chinese originals to compare.
Suitable For
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Building an embankment筑堤
- Digging a pond or pool开池
- Meeting family and friends会亲友
- Filling holes and cavities塞穴
- Encoffining入殓
- Moving a coffin移柩
- Groundwork for burial破土
- Burial安葬
Avoid
- Ritual consecration开光
- Travel出行
- Renovation修造
- Installing a roof beam上梁
- Moving into a home入宅
- Installing doors or gates安门
- Installing or repairing a stove作灶
- Cutting and making garments裁衣
